Investment Support Grants – Packaging – Funded projects
Last updated: 19 September 2025
Number of recipients to date:
29
Total funding awarded to date:
$910,701.68
All projects to be completed by:
March 2023
These grants supported small and medium enterprises, not-for-profits and social enterprises that generate, recover or reuse packaging waste to transition to more circular business models or activities.
They supported purchasing of equipment and infrastructure to enable and accelerate the diversion of packaging waste from landfill. Projects that created new products using packaging waste were preferenced.
Projects were required to either:
- reduce generation of packaging waste
- increase or improve recovery of packaging waste
- manufacture packaging using recovered materials
- manufacture new products using packaging waste.
The fund aimed to:
- divert 6,000 tonnes of packaging waste from landfill
- create 30 new full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs
- have at least 50% of grantees produce new products using packaging waste.
They were part of the Recycling Victoria policy funding.
Fund recipients
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Announcement date: December 2021
Christie Centre Inc.
Project proposal
- Purchase an additional industrial paper and cardboard shredder for its social enterprise Aroundagain Document Destruction, to further boost its environmental and social impact.
Funding
$48,000
Innovative Plastic Solutions
Project proposal
- Expand operations with the purchase of a second injection moulding tool to produce their handbasket product in Victoria using recycled HDPE plastic from milk bottles.
Funding
$50,000
The Dirt Company
Project proposal
- Transition from packaging procured offshore to partly manufacturing some its plastic packaging in house, using waste created through its process and additional appropriate consumer waste.
Funding
$10,071
Preston Neighbourhood House
Project proposal
- Repurpose cardboard boxes donated by Darebin businesses and individuals into new packaging products to be reused within the community.
Funding
$28,200
EQ Plastics
- Upgrade one of its existing food grade plastic sheet extrusion lines, enabling increase of recycled polypropylene derived from packaging to be used within the production process.
Funding
$50,000
Happy Planet Toys
Project proposal
- Deliver on its next commercially viable toy, a unique Pelican-inspired bucket and spade set made from 100% recycled HDPE from milk bottles.
Funding
$30,455
Moon Dog Brewery
Project proposal
- Install a pneumatic baling system to bale cardboard waste produced through the packaging process and to divert polypropylene woven grain bags from ending up in landfill.
Funding
$10,000
Southern Ocean Environment Link
Project proposal
- Expand its program in LDPE and HDPE collection, repurposing / manufacturing and education throughout Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surf coast regions.
Funding
$22,898
Central Ringwood Community Centre
Project proposal
- Create a new avenue for used bottle lids, repurposing it as 100% recycled plastic bricks.
Funding
$10,000Reground
Project proposal
- Expand existing operations in which they collect problematic commercial plastic coffee bag ensuring recyclability and quadrupling their capacity, improving data tracking and reducing contamination in recycling streams within the café industry.
Funding
$35,000
Bintani Australia
Project proposal
- Reduce the amount of woven polypropylene bags that go to landfill by introducing returnable bulk grain discharge bins under a return/refill/reuse model.
Funding
$11,405
Quantum Recycling Solutions
Project proposal
- Implement a plant upgrade that expands existing operations to recycle and reprocess e-waste plastics and associated packaging.
Funding
$41,500
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Announcement date: May to November 2020
Alba Whisky
Project proposal
- Use a new cardboard shredder to produce packaging fill instead of using polystyrene peanuts as fill.
Funding
$6,000
Australian Paper Recovery
Project proposal
- Use new infrastructure to recover fibre packaging to be used in new packaging.
Funding
$50,000
Big Group Hug
Project proposal
- Replace PVC packaging with recycled cardboard.
Funding
$11,500
Darpac
Project proposal
- Use a new hot melt labelling machine to reuse cardboard cylinder packaging.
Funding
$10,447.50
Graina
Project proposal
- Transform its grocery home delivery service by using containers that will be collected and refilled.
Funding
$50,000.00
Happy Planet Toys
Project proposal
- Design and manufacture a toy made from recycled milk bottles.
Funding
$35,000
Innovative Plastic Solutions
Project proposal
- Use new injection moulding tools to produce shopping handbaskets made from recycled HDPE plastic (high-density polyethylene).
Funding
$50,000.00
National Paper Industries
Project proposal
- Purchase a new paper reel cutting machine to reduce paper wastage and waste ending up in landfill.
Funding
$45,500
Pakaflex
Project proposal
- Use new equipment to recycle plastic film that can be reused in their existing flexible timber packaging.
Funding
$50,000
Plastica Australia
Project proposal
- Expand their operations and start manufacturing recycled garbage and medical waste bags.
Funding
$50,000Presto Furniture
Project proposal
- Use a new cardboard shredder to produce packaging fill.
Funding
$2,097.50
Recyclable Packaging (Casslis)
Project proposal
- Use new tools to manufacture cheese and chicken trays from recycled PET.
Funding
$50,000
Sa’pere Drinks
Project proposal
- Create a reusable glass bottle system for pubs and clubs.
Funding
$45,500
SCS Plastics
Project proposal
- Use three new granulators to recycle fruit and vegetable plastic trays they produce.
- In doing so, divert tonnes of PET plastics (polyethylene terephthalate) from landfill.
Funding
$50,000
Select*d
Project proposal
- Replace its current PVC food bowls with recyclable PET bowls.
Funding
$3,350
Stones of the Yarra Valley
Project proposal
- Replace single-use plastic containers with stainless steel containers in their commercial kitchen.
Funding
$3,777.68
Victorian Recyclers
Project proposal
- Create a closed-loop solution to green plastic strapping, remanufacturing the strapping back into new plastic strapping.
Funding
$50,000
More information
This grant program is closed, but you can email us if you have any queries.